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Webster 1913 Edition


Discursion

Dis-cur′sion

,
Noun.
[LL.
discursio
a running different ways. See
Discourse
.]
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Coleridge.

Webster 1828 Edition


Discursion

DISCURSION

,
Noun.
[L., to run.] A running or rambling about.

Definition 2024


discursion

discursion

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Noun

discursion (plural discursions)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
  2. (rare, figuratively) Digression.
  3. (rare) Ratiocination.
  4. (philosophy) step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (compare Iamblichus)

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